Ablett told fan the heroin she was snorting was cocaine

Fallen AFL idol Gary Ablett offered heroin to an infatuated fan who died after a marathon drugs and alcohol binge but told her she was using cocaine.

Transcripts of a police interview have revealed Ablett's version of what happened inside room 1265 at the Park Hyatt Hotel in South Melbourne on the night of February 16, 2000.

Ablett said he prepared four or five lines and had rolled up a bank note to snort them when 20-year-old Alisha Horan came out of the bathroom.

They were already "wasted" from a day and night-long binge of alcohol and ecstasy.

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"And I told her it was cocaine. And she wanted some."

He told police he was drunk, tired and not thinking straight, but that he didn't want Ms Horan to have heroin. "I only gave her a very tiny amount", he says.

She sat on the bed afterwards while he had six or eight times Ms Horan's amount. Hours later she would be dead.

Ablett's words are from a full confession volunteered to police last year in which he says he was prompted by his religion and a heavy heart to "reveal the facts as they happened".

Almost a year earlier, coroner Noreen Toohey found that Ms Horan died from a combination of heroin, ecstasy and amphetamines and that she had been "partying out of her league".

Ablett said in a statement read to the inquest that when he pulled back Ms Horan's eyelids her eyes had rolled back. He yelled and shook her and then called for an ambulance. She died about 8pm on February 18.

Ablett was charged after the admissions in the police interview with four drug offences. He pleaded guilty and was convicted and fined $1500 last November.